Category Archives: Recipes

Hammerknight’s Comic Talk

Posted on January 29, 2010 by Jeff Hebert

Many thanks to Hammerknight for once again providing interesting commentary, this week on comics. Enjoy! As always, click on an image for a larger version.

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Art Talk 1

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Jeff Hebert

Hammerknight’s starting a new series this week, and would love your suggestions. Take it away, HK! Click the image for a larger, more legible version.

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Recipes: Chibis!

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Jeff Hebert

I have to confess I don’t know what a Chibi is, but luckily for you, Hammerknight does! And he’s put together this very cool set of recipes for how to make your own with HeroMachine 3. Another masterful job by … Continue reading →

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Bringing it to a head

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Jeff Hebert

Many thanks to Hammerknight for another excellent recipe for building your own custom helmets in HeroMachine 3. Great work as always, HK! Click on an image to see it in a larger, more legible size.

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Laying it all out

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Jeff Hebert

Hammerknight put together a series of comic book templates you could use in a paint program like Photoshop or MS Paint or whatnot to assemble your own issue out of your HeroMachine characters. Thanks once again, big guy! After the … Continue reading →

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The Little Things

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Jeff Hebert

Hammerknight’s put together an outstanding set of tips for this week about how important the “little things” are to making a really top-notch illustration. He’s absolutely dead-on about this, folks. The whole point of creating a “fantastic” illustration is to … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Size still matters

Posted on December 3, 2009 by Jeff Hebert

I lied last week and said Hammerknight’s recipes included resizing information for the female template’s feet. Oops. Luckily he has made me an un-liar, with this week’s installment! Many thanks to him as always for generously sharing his time and … Continue reading →

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Gui-Tar-HE-ro

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Jeff Hebert

A couple of weeks ago Martian Blue posted a character holding a truly amazing hand-crafted electric guitar. He was kind enough to put together a guide on how to make your own guitar from bits and pieces in HM3, which … Continue reading →

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Handing it to you

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Jeff Hebert

Many thanks to Hammerknight for these two great guides on how to properly position and scale the existing hands and feet for the female template. Good stuff as always! I am definitely thankful for HK on this Thanksgiving, and for … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Dress that gal up

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Jeff Hebert

Hammerknight is back with another installment of dressing your female character for success, considering the new body types and options now available. Many thanks to him as always! If you have a request for a guide, please let him know … Continue reading →

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